Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Management Divisions: Registered Files, Agricultural Land Management (ALM Series)

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Details of MAF 142
Reference: MAF 142
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Management Divisions: Registered Files, Agricultural Land Management (ALM Series)
Description:

The ALM file series was opened for the use of the various divisions dealing with land management. The series is concerned with the administration of schemes and statutes for the use and management of land; acquisition, betterment and compensation and the serving of directions and dispossessions. The records of the Agricultural Land Service are also included and there are some files concerning the Crichel Down Inquiry and the eradication of bracken.

Date: 1922-1984
Related material:

For records relating to Crichel Down see:

MAF 236

CRES 44

Separated material:

A few files from the ALM series may also be found in:

MAF 48

MAF 367

MAF 378

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ALM file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, Lands Branch, Agricultural Land Service, 1971-1997

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division I, Agricultural Land Service, 1948-1953

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division, Agricultural Land Service, 1953-1955

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Division II, Agricultural Land Service, 1955-1958

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Management Division, Agricultural Land Service, 1958-1967

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Tenure Division, Agricultural Land Service, 1967-1971

Physical description: 724 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1945 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing

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